a slush fund can have particular connotations of illegality, illegitimacy.

A fine string of words:

illicit,

corrupt,

illegality,

illegitimacy.

So, before Sue Butler from the Macquarie Dictionary redefines "slush fund" in PM Gillard's favour, the overwhelming feeling is an illegal fund.

The 34 y.o. young and naive Ms Gillard, in her Slater and Gordon exit interview, described the AWU Workers' Reform Association as a slush fund - an illegal fund.

Strike One!

The association wasn't a union!

When questioned about working for Wilson or the AWU, MS Gillard said that she believed, in working for Wilson who was a union official, she was working for the union. (link)

Gillard yesterday seemed still in two minds, saying that when it came
to establishing an association that bore the name of the AWU, her
client was Wilson and his associate Ralph Blewitt as representatives of a
team of union officials who would run together for re-election - not
the AWU. But she also appeared to place weight on the fact she had kept
the AWU informed, through Wilson and Blewitt.

"The people I was dealing with - Mr Blewitt and Mr Wilson - were both office holders of the AWU," the Prime Minister said.

"My
client in creating the Workplace Reform Association was Mr Wilson and
Mr Blewitt acting as representatives of a team of officials who were
going to run together for election in the trade union. But did I
separately advise the AWU that this was occurring, well of course I
didn't.

Of course she didn't!

On the other hand, (link) Slater and Gordon thought they were two different entities:

Slater and Gordon said in its statement it acted for both the AWU and (then) union official Mr Wilson.
“In
acting for the official, Slater and Gordon obtained information: i)
that was confidential to the official; and ii) the disclosure of which
to the union would have represented a conflict between the interests of
the union and the interests of the official.”

Julia Gillard enabled the incorporation of a union slush fund from which
her then boyfriend later stole hundreds of thousands of dollars by
formally denying to authorities that it was a trade union organisation.

So Ms Gillard's claim that the association was set-up for the union and under instructions from the union has been negated by her own submission to the WA Corporate Affairs Commissioner.Strike 2!

Officer of the Court.

The lawyer practises law as an officer of the Court. The lawyer’s role is both to uphold
the rule of law and serve the community in the administration of justice.”

These are the opening words of the Statement of Ethics proclaimed by the Council of
the Law Society of New South Wales on 20 November 1994. (pdf)

Did the young and naive lawyer, Ms Gillard, an officer of the court, mislead the WA Corporate Affairs Commissioner by writing that the association was for workplace reform when she knew that it was a slush fund?Three Strikes....You're out!

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